Four astronauts were safely returned on Monday from a six-month science mission record above the International Space Station, spark with their SpaceX crew capsules in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Daylong flight match.
Dragon vehicles, nicknamed Endeavour, plunged umbrella to the sea from the Florida Beach according to plan after 10:30 a.m.
Est, Monday (0330 GMT Tuesday), after a decrease in the entry through the Earth’s atmosphere carried out by NASA webcast.
Real-time infrared thermal video imaging caught a glimpse of the capsule shot like a meteor through the night sky above Gulf a few minutes before the spark.
Applause was heard from the flight control center because four main parachutes increased above the capsules, seen floating to the bay surface and slowing into about 15 miles per hour (24 kph) before falling softly into the calm sea.
“Endeavor, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome to Planet Earth,” a voice from the SpaceX flight control center on the outskirts of the city of Los Angeles sounded to tell the crew as a safe spark confirmed.
“Very pleasant to return,” one of the astronauts returned.
Returning Capped 199 Full Days in Orbit, the longest for the entire crew launched U.S., according to Kathy Lueders, NASA’s head for space operations.
It exceeded the previous 168 day record set by the spacex-NASA predecessor mission earlier this year, he said.
In one hour splash, the capsules were lifted from the sea to the recovery vessel deck, and the four astronauts were seen appearing one by one of Hatch Endeavour.
Two Astronauts NASA on flights – Megan McArthur, 50 pilots, and commander of Shane Kimrough Mission, 54 – are the first two of the vehicle.
They were followed by Japanese crew friends Akihiko Hoshide, 52, and fellow Thomas Pesquet mission specialist, 43, a French engineer from the European Space Agency.
Each smile flashes and v-for-victory signs when they are assisted to wait for Gurneys, cannot immediately bear their own weight after months in micro.
They will undergo a short medical examination then flown to the beach through a helicopter.
The entry returned to autonomously, the spacecraft started the trip back eight hours earlier on the day with Fly-around 90 minutes of space station because the crew took a series of survey photos from orbiting posts, circling the globe around 250 miles (400 km ) on.
The crew dragon then continued through a series of maneuvers throughout the day to take it closer to Earth before the descendants of the last night.
Driven by one of the last ignition of rocket booster ahead for “de-orbit caught fire,” the capsule re-entered the atmosphere at a price of around 17,000 miles per hour (27,359 kph) to fall free to the sea below, where the communication crew lost for several minutes .
Intense friction is produced when the capsule plunges through the atmosphere slows down its offspring when sending temperatures around the outside of the vehicle soaring to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,927 degrees Celsius).
The bottom of the capsule is covered by a heat-disappeared shield, preventing the spacecraft on fire.
The four astronauts were launched to orbit on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which was appointed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 23.
It was the third crew sent to the Space Station under the Public-Private NASA partnership with SpaceX, a rocket company.
Formed in 2002 by the Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who also founded Tesla Electric Car maker Inc.
The team that was again appointed by “KRU 2” because it marked the second “operational” crew which had been launched by NASA on the boat since continuing last year’s American Land Space flights, after hiatus of nine years at the end of the US Space Force shuttle program in the year 2011.
Substitute Team, “KRU 3,” was originally scheduled to fly to the space station at the end of October, but the launch.
It has been postponed by weather problems and not specified medical problems involving one of the four crew members.
NASA-Spacex Crew Back from Mission Records Aboard International Space Station
